The Anheuser-Busch Scheme

I beg your pardon!

There are quite a few of us......

 

I am amused.

Wonder how many times must Wile E coyote must fall to his end in the cartoon before he learns to stop chasing the cheap road runner and have Grubhub deliver.

In my day if you stood inside a brewery gaurdshack and complained about the botched load situation they handed you a bottle. And another if you continued to make noise. Eventually you will leave out of there loaded. But not necessarily LOADED... he he.

 

Oh I hear ya man. It used to be, we paid more insurance to haul alcohol. Heck, those same beer loads used to pay $3-$5 per mile - and they were overnight haul-*** runs.

Now we can’t even get $2 for them, and after we’ve all bid on them, a half dozen trucks show up for the same load, and -another- secret auction is taking place? LoL come on - Im not a constitutional lawyer, but something about that HAS to be illegal...right?

 

I don't know how to solve the problem of idiot companies or clueless O/O's from agreeing to haul .20 cent loads of beet a few years from now. They should go out of business in sufficient critical percentage of our total capacity so that the very few who parked their trucks long enough to resist the 0.20 loads will now say ok you need a truck? 5.00 a mile.


When we know the who is arranging .20 a mile shipping and find out the exact mechansim of getting trucking companies to show up to earn .20 a mile instead of 3 or 5 dollars a mile then we will know what the solution will be and where to implement it.

 

If Your Truck gets 7.5 mpgs empty and you have to deadhead 300 miles for a load; thats 40 gallons of fuel burned; at $2.43 per gallon, you spend around $100.00. So why not deadhead and save yourself the grief of double booked loads and .99 per mile rates ?

 

The last time I was there I was positively tickled that they thought I was underweight and product was missing on a preload trailer. I'm a lightweight. I am always lighter. I went to the door and I discovered the lines were painted crooked to the door. Even funnier was everyone was backed up to the door crooked from following the lines. I was the only one straight on a door. Product testers must paint the lines where I was.

 

They are truly horrible though. They scheduled my delivery on the 4th of July. The only ones there were a baby bunny and a police officer trying to kick me out of the abandoned industrial park during a tornado warning. I was pretty mad because I told my dispatch several times there was no way anyone would be at a beer warehouse on the 4th but they made me attempt delivery anyways. In a tornado with a police officer. I can usually get a story leaving there. Almost always. Another time a guard tried to make me adjust my tandems for my parked scale weight. I refuse . Probably they wont want me back which is fine. I scaled down the street myself instead. It was right where it needed to be. Buncha bullies.

 

Beer places give you the best stories ever. They aren't just adventurous drunks. They like to make drama and adventure all the time. Another beer receiver on a low weight restriction road tried to make me turn around to dock in a tiny park. Yeah....not likely. I did a 2 mile turn around with a police officer (a different one) babysitting to make sure I didnt go down a residential road nearby signed all over the place. Why on earth would a beer warehouse sit on a weight restricted road? Those are heavy loads.